Ninja Puppy
THANK YOU!I can agree with a lot of what you've said though I do believe that "discipline" is needed in life...such as learning to color within the lines and proper modes of effective speaking... I'm also one for decorum vs. the more dramatic modes of expression for the most part BUT, believe the latter has its time and place as well... the gods know I'm not one to bite my tongue
Then again, they are quite aware as to how I've found myself ostracized in a general way, because of my views and willingness to express them; this is especially true when it comes to my family, that ban of loving Christians who loathe me because of my sexual identity, my social-political beliefs and the level of my education over theirs (they think me arrogant because I graduated high school when most of them didn't)
We mustn't blame the government completely when it comes to the sort of indoctrination process you're speaking of though, there is a far older and more cunning demon involved that shares the same bed -- Religion.
I can't recall the book I read it in, but the essence of what it expressed is that the Government passes laws and establishes the parameters of a society while the Church "governs" by way of psychological/emotional manipulation i.e.
if you don't behave you'll go to hell... Of course, when theocracy becomes the rule there is no such thing as "freedom" on any front, so what we have is probably the lesser of the two poisons